Senior Business Partner - People & Culture

The role

Join Adbri as a Senior People & Culture (P&C) Business Partner and play a pivotal role in empowering leaders, engaging employees, and driving meaningful organisational outcomes across our Victorian Cement operations, and South Australian and Northern Territory operations. In this dynamic and influential role, you’ll provide proactive support across the full P&C lifecycle, coaching leaders, navigating IR, building capability, and supporting DEI initiatives and driving high performance and positive cultural change.

If you're passionate about partnering with leaders, improving employee experiences, and contributing to a high‑performance environment, this is your opportunity to make a real difference.

Responsibilities

• Coach and partner with leaders to enhance people performance, engagement, and accountability, ensuring effective use of P&C frameworks, systems, and processes.
• Support Industrial Relations activities, including EA interpretation, union engagement, case management, and contributing to successful EA negotiations.
• Drive performance, capability, and career development, supporting leaders with MyCareer behaviours, goal setting, reviews, and development planning.
• Lead engagement and recognition initiatives to strengthen culture, connection, and employee experience, including survey action planning.
• Provide expert advice on complex people matters, including investigations, performance management, change management, and P&C policy application.
• Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) - implementation of people integration activities,

What you will need to succeed

• Exceptional relationship building and influencing skills, with the ability to coach, guide, and challenge leaders constructively.
• Sound judgement and problem‑solving capability, with a practical and solutions focused approach.
• Resilience, agility, and adaptability, with comfort navigating ambiguity and organisational change.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a track record of developing and implementing people management improvement initiatives.
• Commitment to DEI and open communication and fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive.

Technical Skills & Experience

• Degree in HR or equivalent.
• Experience within complex industrial organisations.
• Proven experience as a Senior P&C Business Partner supporting leaders across the full employee life-cycle.
• Strong IR capability, including EA interpretation, negotiations, union liaison and case management.
• Experience in change management, organisational design, and project delivery, including M&A
• Strong analytical capability to interpret data, diagnose challenges and support informed decision making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence preparing reports, business cases and presentations.

Our business

Adbri is majority owned by CRH and is a market leader in the manufacture and supply of construction materials and industrial minerals which has been building a better Australia since 1882. Adbri's respected brands employ over 2800 people nationally producing cement, lime, concrete, aggregates, concrete products and industrial minerals About CRH

CRH (NYSE: CRH) is the leading global provider of building materials solutions that build, connect and improve our world. Employing 80,000 people at 4,000 operating locations in 28 countries, CRH has market leadership positions in North America, Europe and Australia. As the essential partner for transportation and critical infrastructure projects, complex non-residential construction and outdoor living solutions, CRH’s unique offering of materials, products and value-added services helps to deliver a more resilient and sustainable built environment. The company is ranked among sector leaders by Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating agencies. A Fortune Global 500 company, CRH’s shares are listed on the NYSE and LSE.

For more information visit: www.crh.com

Creating a safe and supportive diverse workforce

Adbri recognises that diversity in our workforce drives innovation, encourages creativity and better equips us to be Always Ready. We are committed to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion within our workforce and our industry.

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